Narnia 2--Matt Brennan

While reading through Prince Caspian, I found an interesting quote that strongly resembled what is seen in scripture. Edmund says:
“Look here. There’s only one thing to be done. We must explore the wood. Hermits and
knights-errant and people like that always manage to live somehow if they’re in a forest. They find roots and berries and things.”
They proceeded to do this by walking up stream, and it says that “It was very hard work.” But right when they did not think they could go any farther, they are consumed by a delicious smell of an apple tree. “And this is not the only tree…Why, there are dozens of them.”
This reminded me of what is seen in the Gospel of Matthew: “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they?” (6:26).
So often we are blessed to accomplish great things, but when this occurs we are inclined to attribute these things to our own abilities, and we forget that these abilities were given to us by the Lord. We forget to rely on him, and when we end up relying on our own abilities, things inevitably begin to get difficult. If we only relied on the Lord to provide for us, instead of working ourselves to death in order to give ourselves the things we want, he will give us what we need, just as the Pevensie children were given food from the apple tree when they needed nourishment.